Haughey Recruitment Quotes & Sayings

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. — Roy Lichtenstein

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. — Boz Scaggs

Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky. — Catherynne M Valente

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts. — Mike Murdock

Let's focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are. — Gary Cole

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across! — Leif Enger

Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me. — Bryce Courtenay

Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father. — G.K. Chesterton

I knew they were twins and supposed to look the same, but to me, Mark looked like nobody I'd ever seen. — Ava Dellaira

In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage. — Nancy Mairs

Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion. — George Santayana

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality. — Edmund Blair Bolles